Hour of Code is a campaign to show that anyone can learn the basics of coding and become a maker, a creator, an innovator. "Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have all said that students should learn how to code.It’s a skill that not only teaches you how to work with computers,but also teaches you how to think about solving problems with systems."
Hour of Code 2017-2018
Hour of Code is a campaign to show that anyone can learn the basics of coding and become a maker, a creator, an innovator.
"Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have all said that students should learn how to code.It’s a skill that not only teaches you how to work with computers,but also teaches you how to think about solving problems with systems."
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Bloxel Tutorial Videos
Hour of Code - Be a maker, a creator, an innovator!
Star Wars - Building a Galaxy with Code (Beta version)
Minecraft - Explore a Minecraft world through code! (Beta version)
W3Schools - Online web tutorials
BrainPoP - fee videos about coding
10 Middle School Coding Projects for Beginners
Mozilla Webmaker -
Bee A Coder - offers beginner (learn to write code) and advanced (create your own game) opportunities
Khan Academy: Hour of Code - Lots of videos and shared coding projects
Hour of Code 2013: Grok Learning - Get a taste of programming in Python 3.3 a scripting language used by Google, Facebook, and Reddit.
Learn to Code - Learn the basics of Computer Science with drag and drop programming.
Coding for Kindergartners - nice post explaining how elements of programming support pre-readers
Pixel Press - Draw your own video game
trinket.io - teach anything with code
Scratch - Create stories, games, and animations and share around the world.
Scratch Challenges - Wesley Fryer's wiki
ScratchJr. - now available as free iPad app
Minecraft Challenges - Wesley Fryer wiki
Tynker - Learn computer programming at home! A fun and engaging course for children in grades 4-8
Hopscotch - Coding for kids: an iPad programming language. Similar to Scratch & Tynker
Daisy the Dinosaur - App targets the youngest coders. Simplified version of Hopscotch. Excellent introduction to programming!
LEGO Mindstorms Fix the Factory - gets pre-reading students to engage in meaningful coding challenges that develop computational thinking
Cargo-Bot - a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.
7 Apps for Teaching Coding - some free and some not
Programming for Kids - collections of lots of resources
Teach Kids to Program - a collection of resources to teach programming/coding "one game at a time"
Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids - by Common Sense Media
Robotics
Sphero - The app-controlled ball that does it all.
littleBits - littleBits blog
Bee-Bot - an exciting new robot designed for use by small children
Tickle App - video demonstrating how to use the Tickle App to code Sphero